Abstract:
This research aims to study the provisions and issues governing the element of criminal
intent in the crime of broadcasting and promoting rumors in the Saudi financial market, and
to clarify the regulator’s position on considering public and private criminal intent as two
components of criminal responsibility for the crime of broadcasting and promoting rumors
in the financial market, and trying to analyze the problems that respond to Adopting the
requirement of special criminal intent to establish criminal responsibility for the crime under
study, and mentioning the jurisprudential dispute regarding the establishment of criminal
responsibility on the basis of the supposed error, and the extent to which this basis has been
achieved in financial market crimes, including the crime of spreading and promoting rumors
in the Saudi financial market.